Liber Iob, 3
1. Post haec aperuit Iob os suum et maledixit diei suo
1. After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
2. et locutus est:
2. And Job said:
3. “Pereat dies, in qua natus sum, et nox, in qua dictum est: “Conceptus est homo”.
3. "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, `A man-child is conceived.'
4. Dies ille vertatur in tenebras; non requirat eum Deus desuper, et non illustretur lumine.
4. Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
5. Obscurent eum tenebrae et umbra mortis; occupet eum caligo, et involvatur amaritudine.
5. Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6. Noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat; non computetur in diebus anni nec numeretur in mensibus.
6. That night -- let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7. Sit nox illa solitaria nec laude digna;
7. Yea, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.
8. maledicant ei, qui maledicunt diei, qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan.
8. Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled to rouse up Levi'athan.
9. Obtenebrentur stellae crepusculi eius; exspectet lucem, et non sit, nec videat palpebras aurorae,
9. Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;
10. quia non conclusit ostia ventris, qui portavit me, nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis.
10. because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
11. Quare non in vulva mortuus sum? Egressus ex utero non statim perii?
11. "Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
12. Quare exceptus genibus? Cur lactatus uberibus?
12. Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
13. Nunc enim dormiens silerem et somno meo requiescerem
13. For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
14. cum regibus et consulibus terrae, qui aedificant sibi solitudines,
14. with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
15. aut cum principibus, qui possident aurum et replent domos suas argento.
15. or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16. Aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
16. Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?
17. Ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu, et ibi requieverunt fessi robore.
17. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
18. Et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia non audierunt vocem exactoris.
18. There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19. Parvus et magnus ibi sunt, et servus liber a domino suo.
19. The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
20. Quare misero data est lux, et vita his, qui in amaritudine animae sunt?
20. "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
21. Qui exspectant mortem, et non venit, et effodiunt quaerentes illam magis quam thesauros;
21. who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22. gaudentque vehementer et laetantur sepulcro.
22. who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?
23. Viro, cuius abscondita est via, et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris.
23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
24. Antequam comedam, suspiro, et quasi inundantes aquae sic rugitus meus.
24. For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
25. Quia timor, quem timebam, evenit mihi, et, quod verebar, accidit.
25. For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
26. Non dissimulavi, non silui, non quievi, et venit super me indignatio”.
26. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest; but trouble comes."
